{"id":70898,"date":"2017-03-16T14:55:57","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T18:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=70898"},"modified":"2017-03-16T14:55:57","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T18:55:57","slug":"zinke-on-the-job-while-dc-hunkers-down-for-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=70898","title":{"rendered":"Zinke &#8211; on the job while DC hunkers down for snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=70899\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-70899\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Ryan-Zinke-300x260.png?resize=300%2C260\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-70899\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Ryan-Zinke.png?resize=300%2C260&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Ryan-Zinke.png?resize=385%2C333&amp;ssl=1 385w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Ryan-Zinke.png?w=589&amp;ssl=1 589w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve discussed the new Interior Secretary, former Navy SEAL and former Congressman, Ryan Zinke. Like the time he rode a Park Police horse to work on his first day and how he <a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=70642\">lifted the 11th hour Obama regulation against lead bullets <\/a>on his first day in office. <\/p>\n<p>Well, this past week DC was hit by a much-hyped snow storm that only dumped a few inches despite predictions of a foot or more. While the rest of the city stayed inside, <a href=\"http:\/\/ijr.com\/2017\/03\/824623-secretary-zinke-spent-snow-day-shoveling-giving-tours-closed-lincoln-memorial\/\">Zinke went out for a ride-along <\/a>with his Park Police Officers;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The Park Police had previously provided the hard-charging former congressman and Navy SEAL a horse to ride to work on for his first day at Interior; however, this would be the first time Zinke had seen his new position in a state of semi-emergency situation.<\/p>\n<p>This Independent Journal Review reporter was invited to ride in the back seat of the police cruiser for a day that spanned two states, a couple of secret monument tours, a walk around General Robert E. Lee&#8217;s dilapidated home, and the Secretary of the Interior literally shoveling snow off the Lincoln Memorial steps. The ride was a wild one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Among some of the things he did, Zinke helped officers clear away snow from the Lincoln Memorial and conducted a tour for some tourists.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After a photo session, I ask if he would ever consider shutting down the national parks the way the Obama administration did during the government shutdown in 2013. Zinke said flatly<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cNo. What is my job? &#8216;For the benefit and enjoyment of the people.&#8217; How does [shutting down the parks] benefit anybody? My boss would back me up, too. Everybody works for somebody, and the president works for the people.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve discussed the new Interior Secretary, former Navy SEAL and former Congressman, Ryan Zinke. Like the time he rode a Park Police horse to work on his first day and how he lifted the 11th hour Obama regulation against lead bullets on his first day in office. Well, this past week DC was hit by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-who-knows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Ryan-Zinke.png?fit=589%2C510&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-irw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}